Microsoft Makes $45 Billion Bid To Buy Yahoo — Microsoft is to bid $31 per share to Yahoo's board of directors to purchase the company, a deal potentially worth $45 billion. Below, more details, some history and analysis. We'll also keep updating this story, and we'll have a separate post linked …

WOW. Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo — It's been rumored for a long time, but now it's reality. — Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. The bid, which would consist of cash and Microsoft stock, values Yahoo shares at $31 a share, a 62% premium on Thursdays closing price.

Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo — Microsoft said Friday that it would offer $44.6 billion for Yahoo, the ailing search giant. The surprise offer of $31 a share represents a 62 percent premium to Thursday's clsoing share price. Yahoo shareholders could elect to receive either cash or stock.

Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said Friday that it has made an offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion, or $31 a share, in a mix of cash and stock. — The offer represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo's closing stock price of $19.18 on Thursday.

Microsoft Bids for Yahoo — MICROSOFT OFFERED to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in a cash and share deal, a move designed to help both companies compete against industry leader Google. Yahoo shares soared 50% in premarket trading, while Google shares were down 8%. (Statement)

Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook Finances — Want to know about how privately held Facebook is doing from a financial point of view? — Well, just ask Mark Zuckerberg! — This afternoon, at an all-hands meeting held in a Palo Alto, Ca. theater near the social networking site's headquarters …

Google approaching world domination — Google wants you to know it's well on its way to taking over the world. — This afternoon, during a quarterly earnings call with industry analysts and journalists, CEO Eric Schmidt focused on the company's “strong international growth” in 2007.

Is Digg digging its own grave? — Digg has a problem. That problem is that the more users Digg gets, an increasing amount of the stories that reach the Digg front page are bound to be unavailable, brought down by the storm of visitors from Digg. — If Digg keeps growing …